Transportation

File Format
Name	Transportation
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Transportation

The Transportation category is for electronic formats used in vehicles, transit systems, shipping networks, and the like.

Automotive

Diagnostic

• Automotive black box
• On-board diagnostics (automobile service data)

Navigation

• Garmin GPS systems
  • VPM (Garmin voice file)
• KIWI GPS navigation system (.kwi)

Miscellaneous

• OnStar
• Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)

Aviation

• Flight recorder
  • Flight Data Recorder
  • Cockpit voice Recorder
  • Airborne Image Recorder
  • Data Link Recorder
  • Aircraft Data Recording System

Public transit

See Magnetic stripe card and Contactless smart card for some of the physical media used for fare tracking and collection.

Shipping

• Package tracking number

Spacecraft

NASA and other space programs use formats under Scientific Data formats, particularly Scientific Data formats#Astronomical and Space.

Lots of Apollo and Gemini software and documentation are online.

• Standard Archive Format (used for USAF missile data)

Links

• EU group mulls 'remote car-stopping device' for police
• US to push for mandatory car-to-car wireless communications
• Why can't we track jets directly?
• Rethink the airline boarding pass
• Guerilla installation of highway sign
• Russian startup offers wireless remote controller for cars
• Accelerating the Adoption of Web Technologies in the Automotive Industry
• Will copyright law stop you from working on your car in the near future?